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Spence, the guard and reserve exist to accomplish what they are now doing. Alot of kids join thinking it's one weekend a month and 2 weeks a year. But that is not their purpose. Their purpose is so we don't have a huge standing full time military. The Guard and Reserves have jobs and specialties that the active military doesn't have.
For instance, Naval Reservist run and own the mobile inshore undersea warfare units, there are none in active duty. These units monitor security in near shore areas and riverine enviorments. These units are very busy now, before the USS Cole got blown up, they were never called up, now they are never stood down.
The observable fact is that I went on 5 six month deployments to the Persian Gulf between 1990 and 2004 (that's 2 and 1/2 years of my life). The reason for these deployments where to enforce UN sanctions against Iraq. These sanction where toothless and now we find out that the oil we let flow from Iraq made it to Saddams pockets anyways. Before we invaded Iraq, there was another UN resolution made. That resolution would have worked as well as the first ones. Instead, we attacked. So now when the UN makes a demand or resolution countries will listen and they will be worth more than just a piece of paper.
8 years Mac
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